"It is as if stories bond people together and allow each individual to better comprehend what their place is in the world, and how their place holds everything else together."
- Malidoma Patrice Some
"Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Saturday, May 9, 2009

The universe

"The primary difference between the western and indiginous ways of life is that Indians experience and relate to a living universe, whereas Western people reduce all things, living or not, to objects." - Vine Deloria

When I was growing up, I believed everything was part of God. It didn't exactly match up with what I was hearing the church say (Catholic, if it matters).

Now, I'm finding myself drawn to shamanic belief systems. Where everything is interconnected. Everything part of everything... the universe.

The quote above... I find truth in it for my way of seeing reality.
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